The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 83

Now all this time the wicked stepmother, who had been the cause of these poor children’s misfortunes and trying adventures, was feeling fully persuaded that sister had been torn to pieces by wild beasts, and brother shot to death in the shape of a Roe.

Who acts: wicked stepmother, wild beasts, brother · What happens: be, try, feel, persuade, tear, shoot · To what, where: cause, adventures, sister, shape

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked stepmother, wild beasts, brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 feeling	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 time	det:predet
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 feeling	obl:unmarked
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stepmother	det
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stepmother	amod
7	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 feeling	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cause	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 cause	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cause	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 cause	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cause	det
13	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stepmother	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	19 misfortunes	case
15	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 children	det
16	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 children	amod
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 misfortunes	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 children	case
19	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cause	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 trying	cc
21	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 misfortunes	conj
22	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 trying	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stepmother	punct
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 feeling	aux
25	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 persuaded	advcl
26	fully	fully	ADV	_	27 persuaded	advmod
27	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 torn	mark
29	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 torn	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 torn	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 torn	aux:pass
32	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 persuaded	advcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 pieces	case
34	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 torn	obl
35	by	by	ADP	_	37 beasts	case
36	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 beasts	amod
37	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 torn	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 shot	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 shot	cc
40	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 shot	nsubj
41	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 persuaded	conj
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 death	case
43	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 shot	obl
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 shape	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 shape	det
46	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 shot	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 Roe	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 Roe	det
49	Roe	roe	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 shape	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 persuaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past · perfect	the wicked stepmother	the cause			of this poor children's misfortunes	tree rules
2	try	gerund	the wicked stepmother not said here	adventures				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Eventuality
3	feel	past · progressive	the wicked stepmother			now; time		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	persuade	past					fully property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	tear	past · perfect · passive	wild beasts	sister			to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to piece=Result
6	shoot	past	brother		the shape of a Roe		to death	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent to death=Destination

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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